
What made 2025’s best family movies stand out? Under-the-radar gems balance laughs, courage, and moral clarity.

Why do ward choirs matter? They build unity, model male-female harmony, bridge communities, and teach belonging.

Dallin H. Oaks pairs law with love, showing humility, outreach, and a call to hold truth with tenderness.
Public Square Bulletin recommends: Why the Future of The World’s Largest Religion is Female And African Gina Zurlo – Religion Unplugged Religion Unplugged looks at the demographic reasons why the near-term future of religion resides in the women of sub-Saharan Africa, and the significant impacts they’ve made to the world of faith. No need to be wordy with God, simple prayers are great, too RJ Jacobs, SJ – The Jesuit Post Jesuit student, RJ Jacobs, reflects on the simple and meaningful prayers he heard while helping out for Ash Wednesday in the hospital where he volunteers. Updates in the bible of journalism style Terry Mattingly – Get Religion How we understand faith is downstream from how it is described, especially by the journalists we read. The leading light of religion journalism criticism, Terry Mattingly, looks at how the newest changes to the AP style guide may affect our discourse. Orthodox Geopolitics and American National Security Dan Harre – Providence The religious elements undergirding the Russia-Ukraine conflict are deep and complicated. Dan Harre does an excellent job of explaining them with clarity. The Nixon White House plotted to assassinate a Latter-day Saint journalist 50 years ago Mark Feldstein – Washington Post One of the most sobering incidents in recent political history, the Washington Post recounts how President Nixon saught to kill Jack Anderson, one of the leading investigative journalists at the time, and faithful Latter-day Saint.

The question of trust is front and center in crises in America today. Some declare a need to “trust more”—while others insist on less and a need for more scrutiny and critique. What if they are both right?

Gary Wilson provided research clarity to the ill effects of pornography on the brain, for this he was harassed and hounded in life. His death gives us an opportunity to praise his work.

Science shows that male and female reproductive roles define sex despite rare anomalies.
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